Acts 2 Bible study: Poured out

"Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place." (2:1). "Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind" (2:2) (tap wind), "Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them" (2:3), and "They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak." (2:4) (tap Spirit). The multitude "came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language" (2:6). Then they ask a question: "They were all amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”" (2:12). Here is what almost everyone misses: Peter's words come back to that same word, this. "But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel" (2:16), he says, and near the end, "he has poured out this which you now see and hear" (2:33). When they have heard him, they ask a second question: "Brothers, what shall we do?" (2:37). Peter answers that one too (2:38-40). Both answers are Peter's words, as the WEB's quotation marks show.

Psalm 110:1→leads toActs 2:34-36

The LORD's word to the one the psalm calls "my Lord" (Psalm 110:1): "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet" (Psalm 110:1). Peter, speaking on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1, 2:14), said that Jesus was "exalted by the right hand of God" (Acts 2:33), and went on, "For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself" (Acts 2:34), giving the psalm's words: "Sit by my right hand" (Acts 2:34), "until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet" (Acts 2:35). Then he said, "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus" (Acts 2:36).

ἐκχέωekcheosay ek-KHEH-o

Strong's: "to pour forth; figuratively, to bestow". In the words Peter gives from the prophet Joel (2:16), God says, "I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh" (2:17), and again, "I will pour out my Spirit" (2:18). Then Peter says of Jesus, "Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear." (2:33). Here is what almost everyone misses: in the Greek it is the same verb all three times. Acts has it of the Spirit again in "the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles" (Acts 10:45).